For example, you can learn about the financial crisis or how to become a top-notch manager.

Below, we've listed the books we're most eagerly anticipating.

If your New Year's resolution was to read more, we're here to help you out.

The first few months of 2019 have in store some fantastic business books, including an investigation of how incompetent men become leaders, a guide to making your career dreams a reality, and a biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook. Each one will make you think differently about work, leadership, and success.

You know what might be more useful than sitting through an hourlong department meeting? Taking that hour to read a book about why most workplaces are doing meetings all wrong.

Rogelberg is a professor of management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as well as a consultant to organizations including IBM and Procter & Gamble. His guide to more effective meetings is based on extensive research and reporting.

That doesn't mean eliminating meetings entirely, as some disgruntled employees would have it. Instead, it might mean holding walking meetings, limiting meeting times to 48 minutes, or instituting periods of silent reading. The book even features an assessment to diagnose your "meeting quality" — that is, how much of your day you're wasting in conference rooms with your coworkers.

"Be Fearless" by Jean Case (January 8)

Simon & Schuster

Case's book is a welcome kick in the pants for anyone who feels stuck in their career. Case, a former AOL executive who was the first woman to chair the National Geographic Society, breaks down success into five guiding principles: make a big bet, take bold risks, capitalize on failure, look beyond your comfort zone, and prioritize urgency over fear.

The book is packed with examples of legendary innovators, from Henry Ford to Jeff Bezos to Jose Andres to Case herself, and the paths that led them to greatness. Some key lessons based on the stories are testing and validating ideas quickly and taking the long view of your life.

Melinda Gates was one of the early readers impressed by the book, saying, "If you need a dose of courage, I recommend this powerful collection of stories, evidence, and optimism."

"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff (January 15)

PublicAffairs

The monoliths of today's business world are the big tech companies, and unlike corporate giants of the past, they know a scary amount about each of us and hold tremendous sway over our lives. And much of the power they hold is in spaces unregulated by the government.

In "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor, explores the deal that makes it all possible: the agreement to sacrifice privacy for benefits like interacting with friends and shopping online.

Zuboff takes an in-depth at how this system has transformed the economy, politics, and society in general, and where we go from here.

From one of the world's foremost management thinkers comes a highly thought-provoking and heavily researched book about the keys to successful economic development. Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of " The Innovator's Dilemma," explores how innovation can trigger social and economic change.

Decades ago, Christensen was a missionary in South Korea, a country that he says serves as a prime example of an economic turnaround. In the book, he explains how other nations can experience the same type of progress. It starts with the need for three types of innovation: efficiency, sustaining, and market-creating. It's also important to target a "nonconsumption" economy, which Toyota did, for example, when it produced cars for people who couldn't afford cars made by Ford or Chrysler.

Overall, the book is an impressive and inspiring read that will hopefully shape economic-development practices around the world.

"Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport (February 5)

Portfolio

Newport is a computer-science professor at Georgetown University, and the concept of "digital minimalism" is closely related to that of "deep work," which he explained in his 2016 book by the same name.

Whereas deep work is about focusing on a complex task without distraction, digital minimalism means decreasing the time you spend online, by choosing a few activities that are meaningful to you and leaving everything else behind. Both, in Newport's view, are keys to success.

In the book, Newport highlights a variety of people who practice digital minimalism and offers tips for readers to do the same.

"Zucked" by Roger McNamee (February 5)

Penguin Press

McNamee was an early investor in Facebook and even mentored its cofounder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Now, with "Zucked," he's publishing a book that declares Facebook is ruining the world and has to be stopped.

McNamee denounces Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for the way they've handled crises of the past couple of years, including Russian hackers' attempts to influence elections and reports detailing a lack of transparency in personal-data sharing.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you'll want to see why one of Facebook's biggest champions became one of its fiercest critics.

"Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (February 19)

Harvard Business Review Press

This book grew out of one of the most popular Harvard Business Review articles, published in 2013 with the same title. Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor at University College London and Columbia University and the chief talent scientist at Manpower Group, draws on decades of research and real-life examples to illustrate how men who won't necessarily be effective leaders wind up getting the job.

Readers learn to distinguish between legitimate competence and mere confidence, and find out about a dangerous upside of narcissism: You get better at selling your ideas to others.

Toward the book's end, Chamorro-Premuzic cautiously posits that women can make more successful leaders than men, partly because they tend to be more self-aware and emotionally intelligent.

"The Enlightened Capitalists" by James O'Toole (February 26)

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At Business Insider, we've been chronicling in our Better Capitalism series the way businesses have lately been considering corporate social responsibility as a necessity.

In "The Enlightened Capitalists," O'Toole, the founding director of the University of Southern California's Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making, chronicles the ways business leaders tried to align their profits with social good, sometimes with poor results.

As the issue is top of mind for Wall Street and Silicon Valley today, O'Toole's book will be a valuable collection of case studies on what works and what doesn't.

"Loonshots" by Safi Bahcall (March 19)

St. Martin's Press

"Moonshot" is a word popularized by Silicon Valley to express the type of goal a company pursues aggressively, even if it has a minute chance of working, on account of the payoff of even a partial success.

In "Loonshots," Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, analyzes the ways groups will suddenly shift from embracing radical change to resisting it, whether that's on a corporate project, in politics, or even in a traffic jam.

The book has already earned high praise, including from the economist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who said its "convincing analysis" makes it a can't-miss read.

"The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhuo (March 19)

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Facebook's vice president of product design wrote this book based on her experience becoming a first-time manager (and panicking) at age 25. And according to Ev Williams, the CEO of Medium CEO and a founder of Twitter, the book's "practical wisdom" is as useful for brand-new managers as it is for old hands.

Zhuo frequently shares management tips on Medium, like "Sometimes, a great person will not work out on a great team, and that is okay," and "Having all the answers is not the goal. Motivating the team to find the answers is the goal."

In the book, she addresses topics from job interviews gone awry to the difference between a mediocre manager and a great one. In a Medium post, Zhuo said that part of her motivation for writing this book was adding her perspective as a nonwhite woman to existing management guides, especially since the majority of new managers in the US since the 1980s are women.

In this new book, Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, the senior vice president of leadership and team development at Cisco, debunk the most dangerous myths about the workplace, like the idea that company culture trumps everything else. The authors also write about the "freethinking leader," who's able to move past these misconceptions and embrace what makes each person different.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis last year, the top three economic-policy leaders who lived through it reflected on their experiences.

Paulson and Geithner, former secretaries of the Treasury, along with Bernanke, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, break down the reasons for the crisis, why they made the decisions they did, and what lessons they believe the world must carry forward from it.

In "Trillion Dollar Coach," Schmidt, Rosenberg, and Eagle — the former Alphabet chairman, an adviser to Page, and Google's director of executive communications — share lessons they gathered from 80 of Campbell's students that you'll want to incorporate into your own work life.